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#3 Jessica Craft
Position: Shortstop
Bats: R
Throws: R
Height: 5'4"
Year: Sophomore
Hometown: LaPorte, Ind.
High School: LaPorte
Major: Chemistry
Experience: 1 Letter
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Jessica Craft Bio
Courtesy: Ball State Athletics
Release: 01/25/2012

Career Statistics
• 2013 Game-by-Game Statistics
• 2012 Game-by-Game Statistics
 

2012 (Fr.): Earned first letter at Ball State ... helped guide the Cardinals to just their third Mid-American Conference regular season title in program history with a 40-15 (17-3 MAC) record ... played in 25 games ... started the first 19 games of the season at shortstop before suffering an injury in practice which kept her out of the lineup until the beginning of May ... hit .234 on the year with 11 hits in 47 at bats ... drew a walk and scored a run in her collegiate debut versus East Tennessee State (Feb. 17) ... recorded her first career hit versus Cleveland State (Feb. 25), which also drove in her first collegiate RBI ... recorded two hits and two RBI in games versus LIU Brooklyn (March 4) and Northern Colorado (March 9) ... also scored a pair of runs in the Northern Colorado game ... recorded her first collegiate multi-base hit with a double in the second meeting versus Northern Colorado (March 11) ... stole a pair of bases on the year.

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned four letters in softball at LaPorte High School for coach Bob Severs ... helped guide the Slicers to a 21-9 record her senior season and a 81-39 record over her career ... helped lead LaPorte to a pair of sectional championships (2008 and 2010), as well as a regional title in 2010 ... named Co-Most Valuable Player of the Duneland Athletic Conference and to the Post Tribune All-Area team as a senior after collecting a .424 batting average with 29 runs scored, 14 RBI and nine stolen bases ... belted a pair of home runs, to go along with five doubles and a pair of triples her senior year ... named all-area and all-conference as a junior after posting a .461 batting average with 16 RBI, 10 doubles, six home runs and a pair of triples ... named to the all-state and all-conference teams as a sophomore after posting a .474 batting average with 17 RBI, nine doubles, a triple and a home run ... hit .343 as a freshman with eight RBI, six doubles, two triples and a home run ... also earned four letters in basketball at LaPorte ... played club softball for the Midland Magic '94.

PERSONAL: A chemistry major ... born May 28, 1993 in LaPorte, Ind. ... daughter of Robert and Diana Craft ... has two brothers, Jacob and Alexander ... full names is Jessica Ann Craft.  Maintains a 3.325 grade-point average.

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